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- From: jdb1@kepler.unh.edu (Jonathan D Baumgartner)
- Subject: Re: Quicktime Movies Compression
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- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:34:44 GMT
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- In <thacker.43.712531252@cc1.unt.edu> thacker@cc1.unt.edu (Mark D. Thacker x2568) writes:
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- >Quicktime USES the JPEG compression algorithm. I have tried compressing QT
- >movies before and its a silly exercise because they are already compressed.
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- If they're already compressed, how come all the movies I've downloaded
- have been compressed as Compact Pro or StuffIt files? IF it doesn't
- do any good, why bother?
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